Venezuela's leftist President Hugo Chavez has officially unveiled the country's controversial new flag. Parliament last week approved changes to the 200-year-old design, including the addition of an ...

Chavez changes Venezuela's flag. Venezuelan congresswoman Cilia Flores displays a copy of the new coat of arms during a congresssession in Caracas, Venezuela, Tuesday, March 7, 2006.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez raised a new national flag with changes that he said pay tribute to independence hero Simon Bolivar but that critics called frivolous and wasteful. The flag debuted on ...